Ak­ile Si­mon

A sol­dier as­signed to Teteron Bar­racks was ar­rest­ed by po­lice af­ter he al­leged­ly phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ed a woman po­lice con­sta­ble dur­ing a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent in Mar­aval on Sat­ur­day night. The army man, who lives in Mara­cas St Joseph, was tak­en in­to cus­tody by of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force af­ter he crashed his ve­hi­cle mo­ments af­ter flee­ing the scene of an ac­ci­dent.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, the in­ci­dent oc­curred short­ly be­fore 10 pm on Sat­ur­day night. It is re­port­ed that the sol­dier was dri­ving his car out of Mara­cas Bay when it col­lid­ed with the WPC's ve­hi­cle. Both dri­vers emerged from their ve­hi­cles and an ar­gu­ment en­sued, po­lice said. It is al­leged the sol­dier slapped the WPC sev­er­al times across the face and pushed her to the ground.

He lat­er jumped in­to his ve­hi­cle and at­tempt­ed to flee the scene. The sol­dier, how­ev­er, lost con­trol of the ve­hi­cle which crashed a short dis­tance away. He was ar­rest­ed by task force of­fi­cers who took him to the Mar­aval Po­lice Sta­tion. He has since been re­leased, pend­ing fur­ther in­quiries, po­lice said.